Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel

Sourit Bhattacharya is Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is a co-editor of Nabarun Bhattacharya (2020) and Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry.

• Ch. 1: Modernity, Catastrophe, and Realism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel.- Ch. 2: Disaster and Realism: The Novels of the 1943 Bengal Famine.- Ch. 3: Interrogating the Naxalbari Movement: Mahasweta Devi’s Quest Novels.- Ch. 4: The Aftermath of the Naxalbari Movement: Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Urban Fantastic Tales.- Ch. 5: Writing the Indian Emergency: Magical and Critical Realism.- Ch. 6: Conclusion.

“Through insightful textual readings coupled with ample quotations from the texts under discussion, and offering brief contexts of the events of historical crisis, the book is successful in capturing the attention of global readers unfamiliar with the catastrophes and novels discussed in the book. … This could be a promising avenue of inquiry for future scholars. The easy flow of writing and the profuse references to world literary works are sure to enlighten readers inside and outside the academy.” (Avijit Pramanik, Postcolonial Text, Vol. 16 (1), 2021)